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	Politics of the Caribbean - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The politics of the Caribbean are diverse for such a relatively small area.
		The Caribbean is a diverse political melting pot, mainly influenced by the variety of colonial history.
		Elections in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Politics of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Politics_of_the_Caribbean (505 words)

	Caribbean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on the Caribbean Plate.
		The countries and islands of the Caribbean are located to the south and east of Mexico and to the north and west of Venezuela, South America.
		The name "Caribbean" is named after the Caribs, one of the dominant Amerindian groups in the region at the time of European contact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caribbean (800 words)

	Encyclopedia: Politics of the Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Elections in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Politics of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
		Elections in Trinidad and Tobago, Politics of Trinidad and Tobago
		As is the case with all scholarship and political analysis she was subjective--she wrote as a Black woman in a racially segmented Guyana who is concerned about the future of her race group.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-the-Caribbean (1521 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Black Caribbean-American politics after Marcus Garvey - Sunday \| August 27, 2006
		Caribbean migration accounts for the current growth of the fl population of the U.S. There are 2.6 million people from the wider Caribbean living in the U.S. Jamaicans are among the top three and the largest English-speaking migrants from the region.
		Caribbean people do not face the same powerlessness that Garvey faced when there were relatively few of them in the country and African-Americans, who made up the greater part of his constituency, had no voting rights and practically few other rights.
		The Caribbean population in the U.S. is now much larger, better organised, better resourced, more educated and conscious, and enjoy more respect and freedom than fls did in Garvey's time.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060827/focus/focus2.html (1162 words)

	Politics
		The political solution voiced in the media and in parliament was to limit the numbers of migrants allowed to enter Britain and, after the Notting Hill riots, the argument for immigration control dominated political discussion for the next decade.
		For Caribbeans at the beginning of the 1970s, there was a glaring gap between their newly established status as citizens and the treatment they received from domestic institutions and their fellow citizens.
		The political benefits of these struggles to British society as a whole are obvious, but the specific benefits to the day to day social and political circumstances of Caribbean migrants and their children have been less marked.
	www.movinghere.org.uk /galleries/histories/caribbean/politics/politics.htm (2209 words)

	Caribbean - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
		The Caribbean consists of the Greater and Lesser Antilles and is part of North America.
		The nations of Belize and Guyana, although on the mainland of Central America and South America respectively, were former British colonies and maintain many cultural ties to the Caribbean and are members of CARICOM.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /caribbean.htm (609 words)

	Government and Politics
		As in the past, a small part of the literature reflects the contemporary political concerns of subregions of the area, while the other, much larger, part is concerned with the contemporary politics of individual islands.
		Comparative studies of political cultures and the dynamics resulting from different social structures, or political studies of greater historical depth, continue to be few.
		The fact is that the Caribbean has entered into a new phase of development which emphasizes the private sector, the service sector, and export-driven growth, with very few academic studies to provide the policymakers with intellectual support and guidance.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/ss55govt-maingot.html (751 words)

	Guyana Caribbean Politics - The Guyana-Caribbean Rodneyite
		Politics is not only about structures, rules and organization, but more importantly it is about people's lives and livelihoods.
		At the risk of offending the author and her supporters, I have to say that her grasp of Guyana's social and political history, especially as they relate to race and race relations, left a lot to be desired.
		We are aware that this natural disaster follows hard on the heels of a plenitude of disasters we have made for ourselves in the growing tragedy of crime, drugs, death squads, and economic woes.
	www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /wpa/rodneyite.html (5799 words)

	Caribbean Islands - Government and Politics
		Prior to the advent of the PRG, Grenada participated in the Eastern Caribbean States Supreme Court along with Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines as provided for by the West Indies Act of 1967.
		The loss reflected to some extent the traditionally high levels of outmigration; in the case of civil servants, however, the motivation was in many cases more political than economic, expressing the employees' unwillingness to cooperate or collaborate with the workings of the "revo." The basic unit of the electoral system is the constituency.
		The total number of registered voters was 48,152; of these, 41,041 (or 85.2 percent) went to the polls, a reflection of the general enthusiasm for the return of electoral politics.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3270.html (1238 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner News - Cuba and the Caribbean's Cold War - Sunday \| December 3, 2006
		The Caribbean remains the one place in the world where the Cold War continues.
		Cuba is a member of all the important Caribbean and Latin American regional economic, political and technical organisations except the U.S.- dominated Organisation of American States.
		Caribbean investors would no longer have to be wary of investing in Cuba.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20061203/focus/focus1.html (1206 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Politics of the Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The politics (The study of government of states and other political units) of the Caribbean (Region including the Caribbean islands) are diverse for such a relatively small area.
		The major political system is democracy (A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them), with many different party systems within many of the countries.
		It is a revolutionary socialist democracy adopted from communism (A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/politics_of_the_caribbean.htm (896 words)

	Caribbean Net News: The Politics of ‘Foreigners’
		Indeed, the time has probably come in several Caribbean countries when political parties will have to include ‘foreigners’ in their slate of candidates if their political parties are to win general elections.
		It is ending only because politicians and their political parties recognise that the ‘foreigners’ are so numerous that pandering to anti-foreigner sentiment would ensure that they lost the increasingly important ‘foreigner’ vote.
		Caribbean immigrants readily joined British Trade Unions because of their knowledge of the role that trade unions played in their political advancement in the region.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/03/29/sanders.shtml (1320 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Law and Politics: We are just pilgrims on Earth
		Her death in Martinique last week, brought to an end an historic career in law and politics, which left an indelible mark on the Caribbean as a whole, and for us in Grenada in particular.
		Against that background, therefore, it was not all very difficult for her to take the leading position in the aftermath of the bloody massacre that erupted on Fort Rupert on the 19th October, 1983.
		It is much more the reality, that the legacy they have left behind is going a-begging, in that the people taking over from them, or trying to follow in their footsteps, are not adopting their qualities nor emulating the standards they set.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/09/13/lloyd.shtml (1213 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Giving politics more of a Caribbean beat
		With his first political stripes earned as a volunteer in Hubert Humphrey's 1968 campaign for president, Clarence Cooper is hardly a political novice.
		And Caribbean leaders played an important role in the 1992 election of state Senator Dianne Wilkerson, as well as that of her predecessors in the Roxbury-based state Senate seat.
		But leaders of the group say it is important that the city's Caribbean community start to flex political muscle through its own organization, including mining the talent within the community to field candidates for office.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/18/giving_politics_more_of_a_caribbean_beat?mode=PF (579 words)

	Politics and Policy \| Caribbean Leaders Ask Congress To Expand Global AIDS Initiative - Kaisernetwork.org
		Caribbean leaders this week plan to send a proposal to Congress requesting that 14 additional nations from the region be included in the five-year, $15 billion global AIDS relief plan, the
		You have migration from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, Haiti to the Bahamas, Guyana to the rest of the Caribbean.
		The Caribbean, a region that according to the
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=18121 (262 words)

	Basic Information - Major : Caribbean Studies
		The changing roles of Caribbean women are crucial to developing your overall understanding, as are the stereotypes and implications of Caribbean religions.
		Caribbean history, economics, and politics will be covered in depth as you deal with such issues as slavery, urbanization, and education.
		You’ll form ideas on what it means to be Caribbean and how identity, gender, and race have been challenged and defined in the region.
	www.princetonreview.com /college/research/majors/majorBasics.asp?majorID=429 (226 words)

	The Politics of the Caribbean Basin Sugar Trade — www.greenwood.com
		These countries push the Caribbean region to foster economic development on the one hand, but at the same time they follow severely protectionist policies to placate vested interests at home.
		Despite the difficulty of competing against the United States and Europe, Caribbean and Central American countries are likely to continue to depend on sugar cane.
		Given current political realignments, the authors predict that the influence of the United States and the Soviet Union will diminish in the 1990s.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/C3052.aspx (747 words)

	RISM Conferences on Caribbean Society, Culture, Health, Politics, and Education and Migration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The conference of social scientists from the United States and the Caribbean, signaled the coming of age of scholarly interest in the Caribbean and the development of new theoretical and methodological approaches to this compIex area.
		The advent of internal self-government and the imminence of independence for the colonial territories in the British Caribbean, prompted RISM in 1961 to organize in Jamaica, with the collaboration of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the West Indies, the fourth general Caribbean conference.
		Developed in consultation with scholars from the University of the West Indies and the University of Leiden, this conference of specialists from the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the United States focused critically on the revisionist view that slavery was "benign" to both slaves and plantation economy.
	www.rism.org /Conference.html (2209 words)

	Jamaica - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
		In February 1986, Carl Stone, Jamaica's leading political scientist, criticized what he referred to as the criminal justice system's corrupt practice of bribing juries and rendering corrupt judgments in favor of those who have political or economic power.
		This situation changed when political authority passed into the hands of popularly elected Jamaicans, with whose nationalist goals civil servants were not necessarily in sympathy.
		Consequently, economic and political development was hindered by shortages of skilled personnel at the higher management levels.
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/34.htm (3241 words)

	Popular Music and Society: Gender Politics in Caribbean Popular Music: Consumer Perspectives and Academic Interpretation
		This article employs a version of the latter methodology, exploring aspects of gender politics in Caribbean music as expressed in oral and written statements elicited from a set of Caribbean-American students at a working-class college in New York City.
		Such overtly sexist themes may be found in only a minority of Caribbean songs, and are markedly less representative of Latin music; nevertheless, they represent a significant subset, and one that, in its accumulation over generations, has come to constitute a substantial body of music.
		Basic to such an approach is the recognition that the social meaning of a song cannot be unproblematically "read off" the lyrics by an analyst, however well-versed in modern literary theory he or she may be.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_2_22/ai_54504602 (1029 words)

	Related Resources \| Eastern Caribbean \| Caribbean \| Where Does Peace Corps Work? \| Learn About Peace Corps \| Peace Corps
		The opinions expressed in these books, articles and websites are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Peace Corps or the government of the United States.
		Curran, Carolyn J. The Caribbean: A Cultural Journey.
		Knight, Franklin W. The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism.
	www.peacecorps.gov /index.cfm?shell=learn.wherepc.caribbean.easterncaribbean.relatedres (271 words)

	Caribbean disasters and adjustment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travelers think of them as paradise -- the beautiful Caribbean Islands -- but permanent residents live with the constant threat of hurricanes and earthquakes, floods and droughts, and volcanic eruptions -- a condition that helps shape not only their daily lives, but political and economic decisions at home and abroad.
		The series of volcanic islands formed because the Caribbean and Atlantic plates intersect in the area, according to Bonham Richardson, a Virginia Tech professor of geography who has spent 30 years studying the region.
		In September 1898, the governor of the British colony of the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean sent a message from his Grenada office to London saying the situation was dire.
	www.research.vt.edu /resmag/resmag2001/caribbean.html (1803 words)

	International Englishes
		Creole Languages of the Caribbean Area: A Comparison of the Grammar of Jamaican Creole with Those of the Creole Languages of Haiti, the Antilles, the Guianas, the Virgin Islands, and the Dutch West Indies.
		Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language Literature, and Identity.
		Caribbean Language Issues, Old and New: Papers in Honour of Professor Mervyn Alleyne on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday.
	www.wright.edu /~martin.kich/IntEng/Caribbean.htm (486 words)

	Caribbean Islands - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
		Since political administrators are expected to be in positions to influence policy, the Constitution authorizes independent public service commissions that are empowered to appoint, promote, transfer, and discipline personnel in the public career.
		Although public servants have been allowed to join political parties, they have been barred from appearing on a political platform or campaigning openly for candidates.
		This idea was discussed at the 1987 Caricom summit and endorsed by a number of other Caribbean politicians and jurists and by the British, whose taxpayers support all the costs for the London Privy Council; as of late 1987, however, no action had been taken.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-3228.html (1141 words)

	Caribbean in New York's Politics
		In fact it is generally believed that Caribbeans may be as much as a quarter of the city's population with the Haitians and the Jamaicans being the largest groups.
		Though Clarke said she was not campaigning on the Liberal ticket and it was merely a matter of fulfilling her obligation to that party, the fact remains that she was on the ballot as a challenge to Owens.
		Despite Clarke's loss, she has made Caribbean political history in New York by becoming the first Caribbean-born woman to run for congress.
	www.caribvoice.org /Features/politicians.html (1182 words)

	POLITICS: Cuba Seeks Caribbean Allies Against U.S. Aggression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spencer, who is also current CARICOM chairman, gave no indication if the matter would be discussed at the July summit of regional leaders in Grenada or earlier, but acknowledged that the growing fears of a military strike were not sitting well with CARICOM.
		In a statement issued Monday, St. George's reiterated the Declaration's position that ”Cuba is an integral part of the Caribbean family, as well as expressing a commitment out of respect for and promotion of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations”.
		On Wednesday, eight organisations, including the Grenada Trade Union Council and four political parties, adopted a resolution reaffirming ”that Cuba is part of the Caribbean region, and that peaceful co-existence and mutual respect are essential for development”.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=23841 (998 words)

	Caribbean - Inter Press Service
		But despite billions in tourist dollars, the islands of the Caribbean are marked by a profound gap between rich and poor that threatens to derail global efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
		While it is often lumped in with mainland South and Central America, the Caribbean region faces its own unique cultural, political and economic challenges.
		Seeking strength in numbers, Caribbean nations are pressing forward this year with key regional integration initiatives like the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and the Caribbean Court of Justice, and the negotiation of a free trade pact between the 15-member Caribbean Community and the South American bloc Mercosur.
	www.ipsnews.net /caribbean.asp (681 words)

	Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation by Belinda Edmondson
		The contributors look at ways in which the "romance" trope is employed within contemporary Caribbean popular culture and literature to idealize the newly independent, postcolonial societies of the region.
		The essays situate this discourse of idealization in its historical and cultural contexts and reveal how it is a reinvention of the old romance../images initially constructed in the imperial imagination of Europe and America.
		The contributors, by writing on English, French, and Spanish speaking Caribbean countries, succeed in overcoming one of the major handles in the study of the literatures and cultures of the region--the barriers set up by colonial languages.
	www.upress.virginia.edu /books/edmondson.html (391 words)

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